made for the naviar haiku challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku601-pulling-light/

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pulling light from another world (naviarhaiku601)

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 118 - NaviarHaiku608 - Young Grasses

made for the naviar haiku challenge #608: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

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young grasses (naviarhaiku608)

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch
 

Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

fisherman's sadness_naviarhaiku609

As will as the haiku:

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

this also takes cues from the accompanying image, which together make up Naviar Haiku challenge 609, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A bit of a change for this one, I didn't use anything modular and didn't do everything in a single take.   However with the waves field recording, chord sequence, (technically dyads), played using a custom patch for Dreamsynth from Cherry Audio:  https://cherryaudio.com/products/dreamsynth and the footsteps at the beginning in place. 

I then recoded volume automation for those elements allowing me to live mix them with my performance using the Creature From The ID stand alone synth by Giorgio Sancristoforo: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares which was passed through delay and reverb effects, in place as I recorded so I could judge their effect. 

With those main elements done I added the extra footsteps and buoy bell. After listening to the Creature sounds and deciding that in places they more resembled short wave radio interference than whale song I added the Morse Code.

Sounds used.

Waves - My own recording but available from freesound: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Footsteps: walking slow on stones by launemax -- https://freesound.org/s/249921/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Buoy bell:  S29-19 Bell buoy.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/675693/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Morse Code - generated nn line using Morse Code Translator: https://morsecode.world/international/translator.html

The Sadness Of Things - (naviarhaiku - 609)

Unusual glass (naviarhaiku610)

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 11 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA.

Synth, samples, effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “How Monotonous, Herr Pencil” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0715: Err Apparent. The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 715th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Err Apparent — The Assignment: Make a mistake on purpose. Build something from it — at https://disquiet.com/0715/

How Monotonous, Herr Pencil (disquiet0715)

12Sep25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/794312144451682304/naviarhaiku610-dropped-glass
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the fall [naviarkaiku610]

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 12 Sep 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Synth, samples, effects.

This original version of "Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit” was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 610: Dropped Glass.

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

by: Darren Bourne

halF unusuaL is "an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity."

You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2bmRZgyBACkW6lnkTWHSw , and check out his website - https://www.halfunusual.com to find out more about his publications and merchandise.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 21 Oct 2020, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Music & art © 2020, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit (naviarhaiku610)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
611
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku611-half-asleep-eyes/

2025-09-18

half-asleep eyes (Naviarhaiku 611)

A piece inspired by the botanical garden in Lausanne.

pulling light from another world (naviarhaiku601)

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